our renewal is a gift we want to share

You ever see someone going through something that should be one of the most serious and most important times in their lives and think to yourself, " I'm gonna make fun of that girl because I think she's pretty+"? That's basically how my first week of basic started. I had just started training and he had just finished and was waiting to leave. So he took it upon himself as a hold over to make the lives of the trainees harder than it already was. Making sure drill sergeants didn't over look that one soldier hiding in the back without dog tags or an ID. Creating even bigger messes in the bays ( where we sleep) because someone left their wall locker unlocked. But to make matters worse he made sure he learned my name and always pointed out to my drill sergeants exactly what was wrong with me. Every. Single. Time.... There was a point where they would just look at me and tell me to drop because they just had a feeling something was wrong with me. originally I just thought he was a jerk and I couldn't stand him, but then a friend of mine got hurt and kept getting hurt, so I would always be her escort to sick call and since he was a hold over he would always be there and from lack of other human socialization I started to talk to him and we would have pretty funny conversations. he gave me his number on a piece of paper a few days before he left Bravo 1-40 and I put it in my chest pocket on my uniform (ya girl didn't have a phone at the time so I couldn't just put it in my phone on a Sunday during our call home time). I (unintentionally) kept up with his number till the day of my graduation (which also happened to be my birthday and I texted him (He did not remember me at first), but we continued to talk for the rest of the day and he caught on to who I was and I asked him why he was such a douche to me while I was training. He said "I don't know you're really pretty and I wanted to see you become a good soldier. Strong and beautiful ya know?"